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  • A Catalogue Raisonné of
    Francis Towne (1739-1816)
    by Richard Stephens

  • About the Catalogue

    Preface

    About the Catalogue

  • 1772-1780
    Welsh tour • West Country sketches • Studio Watercolours • Oil Paintings • Compositions and Copies

    Section 1

    Early Work, 1772-80

  • 1780-1781
    Rome • Naples • Tivoli • Albano • the North Italian lakes • Switzerland • Geneva & the Chamonix Valley

    Section 2

    On the Continent, 1780-1

  • 1781–ca. 1805
    Lake District tour • West Country sketches • London & New Forest • Studio Watercolours • Oil Paintings • Compositions & Copies

    Section 3

    England, 1781-ca. 1805

  • 1806–1816
    Sketchbooks of 1809, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1812-15 and 1815 • Oil Paintings and Exhibits

    Section 4

    Retirement, 1806-16

  • Pupils & Copyists
    Prints after Towne • Copies by John White Abbott • Miss Maingey • Merivale family • Other pupils, identified & unidentified

    Section 5

    Pupils and Copyists

  • Doubtful Works
    Works with a claim to authorship by Towne but whose attribution is not settled

    Section 6

    Doubtful Works

  • Lost Works
    Watercolours and oil paintings not seen since Towne's own lifetime, and now presumed destroyed

    Section 7

    Lost Works

  • Unidentifiable Works
    Stray pieces of evidence that cannot yet be linked with any currently-identified work

    Section 8

    Unidentifiable Works

  • We welcome your comments, corrections and new information. We are especially keen to identify 'lost', 'untraced' and 'unidentifiable' works.

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  • Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, 21 January – 14 August 2016

    British Museum, London

    Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome

  • Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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